In large projects, development teams are often dispersed across multiple sites and today, it is not uncommon for companies to outsource portions of their development to overseas organisations. The challenges of developing one integrated solution are multiplied many times over by the challenges of communicating across teams, locations and even time zones. In addition, developers will inevitably struggle to develop high-quality code quickly, if requirements are not properly defined and changes to requirements not properly managed. Recent statistics have shown as many as 80% of all software errors are derived from errors in requirements. What is more, finding and fixing these errors leads to huge project rework costs and time delays.

These issues and others like them are common to almost all large software development projects and add unnecessary complexity, time and risk. However, they can be easily alleviated through the use of Contour's Requirements Management solution.

Contour helps developers work more effectively, enabling you to: